Is 'Jesus Denial' for the Psychologically Weak

It is interesting to note that from a psychological point-of-view, denial is a well-known and rather primitive psychological defensive mechanism, and it is true that all too often, and in a great many people, it is simply easier and even desirable, from a mental perspective, to deny the truth of an uncomfortable and challenging and disconcerting fact than it is to accept that truth but then struggle against it—this is much like an alcoholic who would rather deny his broken condition instead of accepting his problem and dealing with it, for while the latter option is mentally challenging, the former choice is psychologically easy—and so, in light of this psychological fact about denial, it is thus not irrational to wonder, or even to reasonably suspect, that perhaps one of the main reasons why certain unbelievers wish to deny that the man Jesus Christ ever existed, even though they do so in the teeth of all the historical evidence, is because they know that if they do admit to the actual existence of this most influential historical figure, then, at the same time, they cannot but contend with the various historical evidences that also support the inference that this man Jesus resurrected from the dead, and so the sheer denial of Christ’s existence as a historical person suddenly becomes a quite desirable psychological option if one does not wish to contend with the other historical claims that flow out of his existence, and thus it would not be surprising if some unbelievers of mentally weaker stock actually took this option as the way to ease their psychological burden and mental challenge that his existence poses to them; and while my claim concerning such unbelievers is, of course, little more than speculation at this point—although not necessarily an unreasonable speculation—it is an idea that could ostensibly be tested in some type of empirical manner, and it would indeed be fascinating to see just what the results of such empirical tests would be…one can only hope that at some future date, such tests are indeed carried out, for the results might surprise both theists and atheists alike.